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Popular Mayor to Run for Governor of Texas

HOUSTON ? Bill White, the popular Democratic mayor of Houston, said Friday that he would run for governor of Texas, changing the dynamic in a heated contest and giving Democrats a faint hope for the first time in 15 years that they might be able to take back the governor?s office.The race has already been drawing national attention because of the pending primary battle between the incumbent, Rick Perry, and a fellow Republican, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison.Mr. White, 55, who is leaving office in January, had been running for Ms. Hutchison?s Senate seat, but he switched his goals after heavy lobbying from Democratic leaders across the state, who were facing the 2010 election with a sense of futility. Texas Democrats have seen their party stumble and fall in statewide races again and again since 1994, when the Republican candidate for governor, George W...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on December 05, 2009 (boomark / email).